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Show 1 t ; - , . I '(I) It has established general offices in (6) The free Ogden-Salt Lake City sidd f Salt Lake City and is the only important steam trip was established by the Union Pacific Sys- I line having general offices in Utah. tern. This side trip was not abolished by the I ... r- .. 1,,, Union Pacific, but was discontinued , under I (2) It built the first railroad into the , ' , , .. . I , ,v ' , . . a .mra Government Control. The Union Pacific was state and acquired, maintained and improved -. 1,1 u t. a -u u t T4. u r 1 1 fi. r - cu t ovl rr nt inimical to its reestabhshment, and was the I the Utah Central, first line into Salt Lake City. reinstate it I (3) It employs 5000 persons in Utah. Annual payroll $7,488,125.95 (7) The Union Pacific Purchasing Agent 1 Taxes paid in 1921 . ... 996,560,23 in Salt Lake buys material and supplies in large I Rents paid in 1921 ... 77,794.72 quantities from Utah's mines, manufacturers ! and merchants. In the first eight months of g Total .. $8,562,480.90 .1922 the gross value of Union Pacific pur- g Included in the ' 1921 taxes were inner- f.ases fro .concerns ; located in Utah, or main- g itance taxes paid to the state by stockholders '"f ffices m the state, aggregated $4,- g I of the Union Pacific, $71,774.91. Since the yo-.JZ. incorporation of the Union Pacific inheritance ,. , , ,- , taxes on its stock have been paid to the state () At Ogden are the headquarters of the , amounting to $1,900,000, a part of which was punn Supply Co., which furnishes the section used in building the State Capitol. labor and commissary supplies to maintenance By far the greater part of the expenditures er 3o19TZI'X "pur- for warn and sunnlies have found their wav ending septemner ju, iy, maae toxai pur- Lto TO -tSs Msto? another esS of 325,999.42. Its total payroll was I lishments. $91,152.84.. (4) The headquarters for the Dining Car (9) The Union Pacific is now committed g 1 I and Hotel Departments are in Ogden, where to a program of development of the industrial g I I commissary supplies for the entire system are and scenic resources of southern Utah, involv- 1 ! purchased. ing the expenditure of approximately $5,000,- g .;. , , . 000. The plans include construction of the 1 j (5) The Union Pacific has expended not . j-l ijoj u u 1 ; less than $500,000 in the last ten years in ad- Delta-Fulmore and the Lund-Cedar branch i I vertising Utah. This advertising has been in Imes, the former being already under way; the - g -v- the form of newspaper displays, illustrated lec- taking over of the Cedar City Hotel, the con- j tures, descriptive folders, booklets and leaflets. struction of hotels at Zion National Park and Every advertisement of Yellowstone Park Bryce Canyon. The construction of branch i and the Western Entrance bears reference to lmeg wJth all their appurtenances and require- ! Salt Lake City or Ogden or Utah. Ninety per ments will involve the expenditure of around cent of the travelers who enter Yellowstone $3)000,000. The total hotel program now Park over the Union Pacific rails visit Ogden ' . , , .1 , -n I or Salt Lake City or both. Every through" practically decided upon will mean an expen- g I traveler to Southern California is urged to stop diture of some $2,000,000, making a grand to- g in Utah. tal of $5,000,000. g What the Union Pacific has done it will continue to do- E I assist the communities along its lines to grow and pros- 8 per. It is a matter of record that no line has ever come 8 under the control of the Union Pacific which has not 8 been improved in facilities and service to the public. We shall furnish additional information from time to time . 3 l SALT LAKE CITY |